Crossword clues for superbly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superb \Su*perb"\, a. [F. superbe, L. superbus, fr. super over. See Super-.]
Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.
Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
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Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.
Superb paradise bird (Zo["o]l.), a bird of paradise ( Paradis[ae]a superba syn. Lophorina superba) having the scapulars erectile, and forming a large ornamental tuft on each shoulder, and a large gorget of brilliant feathers on the breast . The color is deep violet, or nearly black, with brilliant green reflections. The gorget is bright metallic green.
Superb warber. (Zo["o]l.) See Blue wren, under Wren. [1913 Webster] -- Su*perb"ly, adv. -- Su*perb"ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. excellently, done to the best possibly degree, admirably.
WordNet
adv. (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously]
Usage examples of "superbly".
French priest whom we took in at one of the squalid villages of the dreary Haut-Valais, through which on that bright afternoon we rattled so superbly.
Then, leaping upon the horse, whose bridle he was holding, he forced it to rear, caracole and display its spirit and its paces before Domini, sitting it superbly, and shooting many sly glances at Suzanne, who leaned over the parapet of the verandah watching, with a rapt expression on her face.
One could see that she was superbly shaped, but everything was carefully hidden from the gaze.
His black frock coat and breeches superbly cut, his cravat fancily tied and profusely lacy.
And all the time she was under me in a flawless racing onwards, touching the road with the lightest touches, surefooted, straight and faultless, each of her metal bars like spear-shafts superbly cast by angels.
As one of the first of vocal artists, whose voice was superbly trained and was preserved to the end of his life, I have had to pay to Wachtel the tribute of the most complete admiration and recognition, in contrast to many others who thought themselves greater than he, and yet were not worthy to unloose the latchet of his shoes.
He was magnificent, in body and performance, a tautly muscled, superbly conditioned animal.
He had swiveled to his extreme left to watch the antics of a superbly sailed Rhodian galley some distance off his stern when his own huge ship lurched, groaned, shuddered convulsively, and the sounds of many oars snapping off like twigs became intermingled with cries of dismay and alarm.
He is conversing with the Spanish Ambassador, who, like all the rest, is superbly attired, though not in armour, and is followed by a crowd of lacqueys in jerkins and hose of black satin, guarded with silver.
From a cabinet at the end of the room Shaik Tsin brought a crystal ball supported on the backs of three golden dragons standing tail to tail, superbly wrought examples of Chinese goldsmithing.
All these have declared since that they had never imagined more admirable self-possession, a composure more superbly audacious, than that displayed by Madame Steno, at that decisive moment.
He was as superbly built as a triathlete, and she actually ached to touch him, to run her palms all over him.
It made a superbly satisfying whacking sound when it came into contact with a tautly stretched feminine posterior, whether over drawers or on bare twitching skin, and since he was a voluptuary whose senses were vividly attuned, the characteristic noise it made was capable of stimulating his erotic nature to its highest pitch, as Alice and Maude quickly determined.
The real bears had gypsy owners, who tended to be jealous of the new arrival, so superbly talented.
And only the bioresearch station, which was superbly equipped for just such experiments, offered any chance of that.